I love my P38

It's just great. It's 15 years old and drives as smooth as silk. Okay, we've had our problems, and its only been just over two months since we met. But we do loads together: sand dunes, forest tracks, village roads, motorways, mountain passes and city streets and all in sweltering heat (44c on a recent excursion to Tesco), this is truly Business Class on wheels.

I just wanted to share that.

By the way, does anyone know why my cruise control switches (brand new only five weeks ago) should fail to initiate the cruise control and just click at me? I was doing about 75 and mildly blipped throttle and it just stopped working. I tried to switch it on again and got the clicking. I switched it off at the master switch and left it for a while and then tried it after about five minutes and everything worked fine. Just a quirk of the system or does the cruise control ECU have a reset to cater for donkeys like me?


1995 4.6 HSE Auto
(previously owned a 2 door classic 1978)

Here Here - love mine too -

Love mine too. Just sold my regular car as since getting the RR I hardly drove the car and don't do that many miles.

Worked out that the cost saving of tax/insurance/mot on my car would pay for the difference in fuel costs for the mileage I do...

Hi Baloney999,

Re. the cruise control...I replaced the vacuum pipes detailed here - my cruise control sprang back into life and has worked perfectly since.

Cruise Control Problems and Solutions

Quick, cheap and easy (all you need is suitable new vacuum pipe and a Stanley knife to cut it to length. Hope that is the problem on yours.

Malcolm

Hi Malcolm,
Thanks for that. The vacuum pipes seem ok - I'm tempted to think its electrical because the symptoms don't really fit the vacuum pipe problem (fading away on hills etc).